Men have been told to handle the breast of their women with care because it is fragile part of a woman’s anatomy, the President of Breast Care International, Dr. Beatrice Wiafe-Addai has said.
Speaking on the sidelines of the breast cancer awareness month which is celebrated in October every year, Dr. Wiafe-Addai told Morning Starr host Francis Abban debunked as untrue the claims that the sucking of breast by men reduces the risk of breast cancer in women.
“It is not true that the more you suck a woman’s breast, the more it prevents the risk of getting breast cancer. What is true is that women who have children should breastfeed, and breastfeeding has some positive effects on the woman as far as breast cancer is concerned.
But not for adult men to go and suck the breast thinking it will protect the woman from breast cancer. That is not true, it is very fragile so let’s handle it with care…don’t squeeze it like you have some mango or orange that you are squeezing to get some fluid out,” Dr. Wiafe-Addai advised.
Dr. Wiafe-Addai also advised men not to abandon women diagnosed with breast cancer but rather help to fight it, noting “If you find something in a woman’s breast, don’t send her to her family home because she has been diagnosed of breast cancer. Give her all the morale even if not financial so that she knows that someone is with her through the fight. The fight against breast cancer is not an easy one so women need all the support from men, society and the nation.”
Meanwhile, Raheema Quaye, a breast cancer survivor, has been thrown out of her matrimonial home by her husband after she was diagnosed of the ailment.
“My husband told me to pack and our three children to pack out because he thought breast cancer was contagious when I informed him about it. I packed out and informed my relatives about it, but at a point they also abandoned me on reasons that they were going to get infected as well and even brainwashed my own children to abandon me,” she narrated to the Morning Starr.
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